What is the card game in pride and prejudice?

Early on in Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet jokes that her sister Jane and Mr. Bingley have known each other only a short time, so short that one of the few things they know about each other is that they both like the card game Vingt-un better than they do Commerce
Commerce
Commerce is an 18th-century gambling French card game akin to Thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to Whisky Poker and Bastard Brag. It aggregates a variety of games with the same game mechanics. Trade and Barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them.
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